America's Next Top Model 17 - All Stars - Week 1 Photos + Prize Spoilers

Here are the photos from Week 1 of America's Next Top Model. Evidently these appear to also possibly be the promo pictures for the new season. It is known that they are the week 1 photos because the judging happens live at least for the first half of the season.

They were portraying their ANTM stereotype!

Shannon Stewart (Cycle 1), Camille McDonald (Cycle 2), Brittany Brower (Cycle 4), Lisa D’Amato (Cycle 5), Bre Scullark (Cycle 5), Bianca Golden (Cycle 9), Dominique Reighard (Cycle 10), Isis King (Cycle 11), Sheena Sakai (Cycle 11), Allison Harvard (Cycle 12), Laura Kirkpatrick (Cycle 13), Angelea Preston (Cycle 14), Kayla Ferrel (Cycle 15) and Alexandria Everett (Cycle 16).

Prize spoilers from Zaptoit:

The prize package for the show, which has undergone very slight alterations in recent years, has been changed once again. The winner of the show will still have a special spread in Vogue Italia and a contract with Covergirl Cosmetics, but new this year is an Express fashion campaign and a chance to become a correspondent on Extra. Last cycle, the other prizes were a contract with IMG Models and a cover of Beauty in Vogue.

The guest judges for this cycle include two rappers (Nicki Minaj, Game), a comedienne (Kathy Griffin), two singers (Ashlee Simpson, LaToya Jackson), a TV personality (Kristin Cavallari), the creator of CSI (Anthony Zuiker), and three "names" in the fashion industry (Nikos Papadopolous, Coco Rocha, Tyson Beckford). The core judging panel (Tyra, Andre, Nigel) will remain the same, as will the J's in their respective fields.

It's interesting to see that the prize package is a mix of high fashion (Vogue Italia) and more commercial endeavors (Extra, Express), since the show has made a push toward the former in the more recent few cycles. It's unclear what type of model the show will be going after this cycle, but considering that some of the contestants are shorter (Laura) or older (Camille) than the average high fashion model, I think the emphasis might be back on the commercial girls this time. Whatever the case may be, a lot of former Top Model contestants go on to do work more similar to the Extra/Express side of the fashion world than walk the catwalk in couture, so the show may just be managing expectations a little this cycle.

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For the most part I think these pictures are pretty darn bad. Except perhaps for Kayla and Allison's. I'm SO Excited for the new season though!! Should be epoch!

I love ANN she should be on every season of ANTM onwards!